Category Archives: TECHNOLOGY

Exams are coming up!

It’s time to prepare your laptop for the exam period. All in-class exams require the latest version of Exam4. You must install the latest version and upload a Practice Exam using your Spring 2013 TestId by 2:00pm Tuesday, May 7,…

Post Hurricane Sandy Instructional Support

Central ITS is pleased to report that with the power restored to lower Manhattan, they were able to fully restore Blackboard Saturday afternoon, including ability to create new TurnItIn assignments, and enrollment data-feed updates with ALBERT. Throughout Hurricane Sandy, Blackboard…

Tech Tip: Password Strength

Do’s: Take a word you can remember and replace some letters with numbers and special characters. Choose your favorite line from a book and string together the first letter of each word.  Replace some letters with numbers and special characters.…

Laptop Compliance: This Friday!

There are only a few days left until the compliance deadline. If you have an in-class exam, you must submit a completed Exam4 Practice Exam before 2pm, Friday April 27th for the Spring 2012 semester. Please take a few minutes…

Maintenance Postponed: Tonight’s (4/20) Blackboard maintenance has been rescheduled

Maintenance Postponed: Tonight’s (4/20) Blackboard maintenance has been rescheduled for Friday, May 4th, 8:00 p.m. We will be sending a reminder shortly before that time.  Thank you for your patience and have a fabulous weekend.

Blackboard Scheduled Maintenance 4/20

Blackboard will be unavailable from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. on Friday, April 20, 2012.Blackboard users will be unable to login during this window, and open sessions will be logged out. ITS will be performing regularly scheduled maintenance on the…

Tech Tip: Safer Browsers

  Use Firefox or Chrome browsers for safer browsing and a lower chance of malware infection.  

Blackboard Training

Information Technology Services is pleased to announce the new Spring 2012 academic technology training schedule! Registration is now open for in-person sessions, beginning January 17, for a variety of popular ITS services, including: NYU Blackboard * Getting Started with Blackboard…

Tech Tip: Customize Ribbon

Having problems finding things in the Microsoft ribbon?  Customize it! Right Click on ribbon > Customize Ribbon > Add new tab & your favorite commands to find exactly what you want when you want it! Staff and Faculty, learn more…

Is your laptop ready for exams? One day left to get it compliant.

Make sure your computer is ready to go for finals by downloading the Fall ’11 Exam4 software and taking the practice exam. Avoid losing time if your computer has problems during finals by submitting your practice exam successfully by the…

Students Get Ready for Fall ’11 Finals!

Make sure your computer is ready to go for finals by downloading the Fall ’11 Exam4 software and taking the practice exam. Avoid losing time if your computer has problems during finals by submitting your practice exam successfully by the…

Restore Archived Courses on Blackboard

Want to restore an archived course? Check out the university’s new self-service tool called the Course Archive Browser: a course restoration tool. The Course Archive Browser allows instructors to search for their own archived course and restore it. Check out…

Spring 2011 Courses Now Available on Blackboard for Faculty

Faculty and staff can now find SP12 courses available in Blackboard.  You can start modifying your course shell and adding content now.  Students will see these courses as their professor’s make them available closer to next semester. For more Blackboard…

Tech Tip: Two Outlook Windows At Once

If you want to have your calendar open in a separate window from your mail, you can easily do so by simply right-clicking on the navigation buttons in the left-hand corner and selecting “Open in New Window”.

Exam4 No Longer Supporting Windows XP

Starting Fall 2011, all students with PCs must have at least Windows Vista or Windows7 as their operating system in order to run our exam software, Exam4.

Website Training – New Basic Editing Training Video

Starting this semester, a new basic website editing training video is available online.  This will take the place of in-person training.  Watch the training video listed on the Web Help page on your own time and then email the contact…